Re: User Agents Do Not Implement Absolute Length Units, Places Responsive Design in Jeopardy

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Brian Blakely <anewpage.media@gmail.com>wrote:

> 3 means of defining an inch have have been discussed:
>
> 1. Pixel-ratio (almost always 96 px/in)
>
> 2. Actual (1 in/in)
>
> 3. Hardware Vendor Defined (X px/in)
>
> #1 is necessary for backwards compatibility, and it's also the current
> status quo.  #2 serves a tremendous number of use cases,
>

We've discussed how your goal of finding out what kind of device is being
used is not well-served by option #2. What are your other use-cases?

and #3 offers some very interesting opportunities for adaptation.
>

If #3 is totally arbitrary at the whim of the device vendor, how can authors
use it at all?

Rob
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